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From: "William F. Smyth" <>
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] The truth about Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 11:20:49 -0800


As an add-on to this query, I would like to know if anyone knows whether
Elizabeth Barrett was of Portuguese descent? I refer to the time prior
to the 1600's. Is this why her most famous work was titled "Sonnets
from the Portuguese?" The Portuguese being she.

Cheers,
Bill Smyth

Nevilla Ottley wrote:
>
> Dear Listers,
>
> A few years ago, I read in the Ebony Magazine (and both my copies
> disappeared), an article about the roots of the famous English poets,
> Elizabeth Barrett Browning (of Jamaican parentage) and of Robert
> Browning (of St. Kitts).
>
> Have you any other documentation on their genealogy?
>
> Nevilla E. Ottley

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